Jesmyn Ward Quotes

I love Vancouver. I can be with my family, I can reconnect with the guys. It will always be my home.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

I love my community. I love always being able to come back and have a home.

Everyone knows I'm very close to my family, my hometown, my homeland.

I love South Florida; this is where I am from, so I don't think there is anything more rewarding than knowing that where you grew up is standing behind you and supporting you.

It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces.

I love the Rio Grande Valley. I always say it's home - Texas is home. I've been out in L.A. a little over ten years, and I still get so excited when I go back home. It just feels comfortable; it makes me smile.

I love coming back to Neath - this is home and always will be.

I love Cleveland, and I love going back home. That's where my family is. That's where my roots are.

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

It's about, I did talk about my life in broad strokes and what home meant to me in order to really explore the subject of home and can you go back and what that means for people in that sense of community that we've lost.

The best thing you can do is remember your home town.

I feel very connected to Las Vegas. It's my hometown.

Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home.

It's always good to go home. It's strengthening to see your past and know you have someplace to go where you're part of a people.

L.A. just doesn't seem real to me. Chicago does. My real friends are there. It's home.

I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

I mean I love my family very much, but there is a difference when you're reuniting with your family outside of your hometown and reuniting in the family home.

I think I'll always live in Fort Worth. It's great that I can now go anywhere I want to play music, but I love coming back here. I can roll down the streets and just reminisce.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.

I love Irvine. That's my 'hood. I went to USC and used to come home every weekend. It's in my comfort zone.

In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.

I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with. Wherever I go, La Castellane is where I want to go back to.